The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-05-27

again. And before he could grasp
me and prevent me, had flashed in
to the house, and had shut and bolt.
ed the door.
He waited then; he waited, should
think, an hour And l sat inside,
burning with anger, and with an un.
conscious sense OF shame, very likely,
aud q bitter disappointment, and
wild, unnamed fear. And at last he
rose slowly and looked at the win
dows, md turned away and called old
Roland, and wentslowly down the lane.
And lie never came back. / could
see him walking along, ever so slowly,
i'll the clear moonlight, with the dogs
nose in his hand, till the road turned
into the wood that mounted the hill.
And when he had gone | Just threw
myself on the floor, and all but dis.
solved III my mad tears. And didn't
know what the tears were for-whcth-
er for fear OF losing Mark, or for fear
OF losing my home, or for fear OF Civ
ing up my will; but it seemed to me
that the end OF the world had as good
as come.
We were both orphans, we both had
these great properties, and we had
both better have been beggars.
That was June, and the tull moon.
didn't sleep any that night hard
| ly know why; presentinient of evil
kept me waking although | was SO
tired. remember that moon now,
hanging in the purple sky, with her
wide wings, like a great boding ghost
Every time l looked out, there she
was. By-and-by she began to frighten
me, and shut her out, but lay awake
all The same, my mind in q wild whirl.
The next evening, in the long after
glow OF the sunset, tripped down
4 tho lane to the wood. sure that I
should meet him, as had always
done, on his wayto me; but the shape
| had been used to see bounding down
] the path did not see again. went
close to the shadow OF the wood, but
| only old Roland came and put his
| nose in my hand, and waited with me
| while l waited, and went back with
| me little way when went back. 1t
did not occur to me to think that
| where Roland was his master was not
far distant. And | went down the
lane no more.
After that, then, one day erept by,
and another, and life continued in
the old way, and all the business of
the great farm thrived in the hands
| OF Bryan, the directing overseer, and
all seemed to be mere idleness. The
moving machines We're humming all
day in the meadows, and the huge
loads OF fragrant hay came laboring
into the barns, and thunder clouds
made panics, and the lightning fell, as
| it always did on the wet low grounds,
| and burned one or two haystacksj
and then the gundelows vent down
the river for tho salt hay, and came
back, days afterward, with their dark,
square sails set atop OF their square
loads OF thatch; and one by one all
| the concerns OF ripenmg and harvest
ing had their season, and past, and
| August was over. And Mark had
nater once been up to the lane again;
and Septaniber had gone, and the
hnrvest-moon; and the hunter moon
had poured its silver hoods ef light
| out OF n great lonely heaven; and still
Mark had never come.
j SUPPOSE Mrs. Wells. nv next
neiphbor. know ah about It. And
Mrs. SAWYER, on The other side. Of
course knew all that Mrs. Wells did
Thev we're very coed to me and they
and tbe Girls we're always Running in
to see me, or sending Tor me to run In
and see them. don't think | was
irving to carry things OIL with n HIGH
hand and know / WASN'T hanoino
NV head and cryina over what VAS
not to be i,eiped. / simply made up
nv mind to the inevitable. / was
never going to have Mark beside ma
any more, and must endure it, and
get thronel, life as we'll ns | could
| had this iarm on NV hands. md ali
tho people who had tbeir liyinn from
il. and / must do nv dutv. And per-
haps ia time fate would be kinder.
and give me a fever or cough, and let
me lie down and die; and he would
come then and look on me, and ne.
member how had loved him. and BIZ
sorry. And thinking how sorry he
would be was ioy Rugged to nv
heart. and the only iov had.
But / used to long SO sometimes to
see Marks dear lace again, to hearhis
yoiee. lust to Law NV head on his
shouidep snd ary nv ewes out there.
Sometimes il used 10 seem to mo that
/ couldn't live another u,inuta if |
didn't run down that lane AND uh
through the wood to the old houss or,
the rock and aud him. and bey him to
foraive n,e--foraiye on. not inst thar
burst of temner. tnt the whole rebel.
;o, oH .; - nn aa,,and and come cn back TO leu
and sometimes selt thnt must tnke
some sleeping potion thai would keen
me benambad TIL the pain lad On esed.
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